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Quality Health Solutions LifeStyle Management Programs was presented the Gold Award for Health Management by leading health care accreditation organization, URAC. The honor was announced at the 2009 Best Practices in Health Care Consumer Empowerment and Protection Awards Gala on April 1-2 in Orlando, Florida. The awards are designed to recognize innovative leadership and successful programs in consumer-focused health care management.
Quality Health Solutions LifeStyle Management Programs works with individuals to help them identify their readiness to change in relation to seven behaviors closely tied to preventing and managing chronic disease. The LifeStyle Management programs offer individuals access to a health risk intervention, a computerized tailored intervention, and an interactive stage-matched workbook, all based on the Transtheoretical Models.
Seventy submissions were evaluated by a 27-member panel of prestigious, independent judges including experts in program evaluation, care coordination, health information technology, employer and purchaser decision making and patient safety. Honors were awarded in six categories: Health Plans and Health Networks, Health Management, Health Information/Decision Support, Pharmacy Quality Management, Consumer Decision-Making, and Consumer Health Improvement.
“Our Best Practices awards program is a unique celebration of the best the health care industry has to offer. These companies have made a difference in the lives of consumers by implementing leading-edge programs with results that matter ,” said Alan P. Spielman, president and CEO of URAC. “At a time when health care reform is in the spotlight, achievements such as these lifestyle management programs are even more important.”
“We are honored to be recognized by URAC,” stated Quality Health Solutions' research and development partner James O. Prochaska, Ph.D., founder of Pro-Change Behavior Systems. “We appreciate the importance of URAC's goal to raise the quality and impact of the evidence needed to support health management programs.”
About Quality Health Solutions
Honored as one of the best wellness vendors in the nation three years in a row by the Health Industries Research Companies, Quality Health Solutions' mission is to encourage personal responsibility for health and well being. Quality Health Solutions helps people discover their motivation and confidence, overcome challenges, and identify resources to achieve positive, healthy changes.
About Pro-Change Behavior Systems
Quality Health Solutions collaborative partner Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc. is the leading research and development company for computer and coaching based programs to change health risk behaviors. Quality Health Solutions LifeStyle Management Programs were developed by Pro-Change and proven effective via the scientific rigors of population level clinical trials. Pro-Change founder, Dr. James O. Prochaska, is one of the originators of the Transtheoretical Model of Behavior Change and the author of more than 300 papers on behavior change for health promotion and disease prevention.
About URAC
URAC, an independent, nonprofit organization, is well known as a leader in promoting health care quality through its accreditation, education and measurement programs. URAC offers a wide range of quality benchmarking programs and services that keep pace with the rapid changes in the health care system, and provide a symbol of excellence for organizations to validate their commitment to quality and accountability. Through its broad-based governance structure and an inclusive standards development process, URAC ensures that all stakeholders are represented in establishing meaningful quality measures for the entire health care industry.